Edward Luckhaus | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Triple jump |
Birth Date: | 31 August 1910 |
Birth Place: | Hlukhiv, Chernigov Governorate, Imperial Russia |
Death Place: | Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Bavaria, West Germany |
Edward Gustaw Adolf Luckhaus (31 August 1910 - 12 May 1975) was a Polish athlete of German ethnicity. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]
During World War II he volunteered to Wehrmacht, fought on the Eastern Front and was taken as prisoner of war, being incarcerated in the POW camp in Gomel.[2] After being released in 1948, he moved to Bavaria, where he lived with his family in Pfaffenhofen near Munich. He worked as a physical education teacher initially in the Benedictine monastery in Scheyern, later at the gymnasium in Pfaffenhofen.[2]